>> [clyburn] well the primary election was, uh, sort of interesting. um, uh, you knew, uh, from the very beginning, uh, that it was going to be historical. you had, um, an african american running, uh, that seemed to be a little bit different from african americans who had run before. you had a woman running that seemed a little bit different from the women who had run before. and so the conventional wisdom was that, uh, this was going to be a change election. >> look, i'm not running because of long-held ambitions, i'm not running because i think it's my turn. i'm running because of what dr. king called, "the fierce urgency of now." "the fierce urgency of now." >> throughout that year, the obama campaign assembled a nationwide network of dedicated volunteers, and they broke fundraising records by mastering the internet. early on obama trailed senator hillary clinton by large margins in national polls, and struggled against doubts and criticism. >> early on, supporting senator obama was a somewhat lonely position within the democratic caucus. it was a